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Matt Cameron

@mattcameron.bsky.social
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Fighting ICE since 2006, cohosting @openargs.bsky.social since 2024, playing your piano since 1987. Read my journal at deportnation.com

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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 1h
executive order entitled "Inaugurating the Era of Super Intelligence"
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 2h
There are probably still a million former OA listeners out there who don't know how much better this show is than it ever was before the single most dramatic series of events in American podcasting briefly ruined it, and to you I say: welcome to the Cameron Reformation era
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 3h
the Hawks/Hawkeyes thing is really funny, but the fact that the brains of a sitting U.S. Senator *and his entire staff* are so thoroughly cooked that they thought this nonsense meant anything at all is going to make me go doomer if I think about it too much
Katie Britt enduring the stupidest fucking piece of posterboard ever displayed in the US Senate
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 4h
unironically hoping that historians ironically label the second Trump term "the Era of Super Intelligence" for the rest of time
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Google earth has updated its satellite images of Gaza. The destruction is almost incomprehensible.
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
if you live in Boston and claim to have never heard "Choosin' Texas" I have immediately learned something about you: you haven't used a ridesharing app more than a couple of times in the past year www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
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What Some Folks Really Mean When They Claim to Have Never Heard 'Choosin' Texas'
Claiming to have never heard Ella Langley's record-setting country song 'Choosin' Texas' is similar to saying, 'I listen to anything but country.'
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
my man went so rogue that he wrote everything out as a chapter in the single most influential document of the MAGA movement a full year before the election before sliding comfortably into exactly the position he was lobbying for after it
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I know the conventional wisdom is to drop acid out in nature on a perfect sunny day, but so long as you've got your set and setting right there is something to be said for tripping through a heavy nor'easter
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Roquentin @cultofmany.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
So irresponsible of him to do this at a time when we’ve demonized / criminalized the most effective class of rx pain management to such an extent that people with chronic pain are left to either suffer or figure out their own solutions. Botanical kratom fills that gap for many ppl.
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This John Oliver piece is remarkably reductive--and regressive--for someone who is otherwise fairly reliable on the stuff that matters. Reducing botanical kratom to a dangerous "gas station drug" because 7OH exists is 1:1 like criminalizing marijuana because K2 & other synthetic THC products exist
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Gas Station Drugs: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
1/ THAT TIME I ACCIDENTALLY WROTE A BOOK 3 years ago I accidentally combined too much MDMA w/a full dose of Wellbutrin and kicked off a 2-week burst of manic creativity like nothing I have ever experienced in my life. I adore the manuscript which came out of this, as does everyone who has read it
Cover page for "The Last Lawyer," a novel by M.S. Cameron with epigraphs by T.S. Lewis and former Massachusetts governor John Winthrop
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
What's the one after late-stage capitalism
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
TIL that the plains of Megiddo--the place I was raised to believe the world would end in the slaughter of the armies of Iran, Russia, etc after an attempted invasion of the reformed Jewish homeland--are a UN World Heritage site and I am done for the night www.holylandtourstravel.com/christian-ho...
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Megiddo Israel & Armageddon Biblical Prophecy | Christian Holy Land Tours
Discover Megiddo in Israel, the Biblical site of Armageddon mentioned in Revelation. Explore Christian Holy Land tours featuring Megiddo, Jerusalem, Galilee, Biblical prophecy, and ancient Israel arch...
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nancabell.bsky.social @nancabell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
As someone who went through it, I promise you, it was an occupation. Looked and felt like we were being overtaken. I’m still triggered as are SO many of us. I am changed from it, it was absolute terror.
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Beyond the painfully obvious reply to this nonsense that "this is exactly what you voted for," Trump voters should if anything be upset that ICE has come nowhere near his explicit campaign promise to deport *one million people per year* abcnews.com/Politics/jd-...
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JD Vance says mass deportations should 'start with 1 million,' defends 'thought experiment' giving parents extra votes
GOP vice presidential candidate JD Vance spoke with ABC News' Jonathan Karl about a wide variety of topics including immigration and his views on childless Americans.
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Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Americans do not understand that the United States is currently a dual state, in which the 'immigration system' (& spending via OMB, etc.) is operating as a lawless totalitarian prerogative state, alongside more normal processes of the normative state in other areas of law & policy.
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
And they say this man is hardly working! Marveling at this dedication to very real problems which definitely exist
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sam ! @sam.robotsfightingdinosaurs.com · 15/09/2026
IT'S FUCKING CALLED BABA O'RILEY YOU FASCIST GOD DAMN SWINE
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Opening Arguments Podcast @openargs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We'd like to send a special shoutout tonight to The Federalist for just consistently continuing to crank out the worst fucking legal takes known to the Anglosphere, day after goddamn day. It takes true dedication and a deep love of the game to be this shitty!
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Lol @ the publicist for this person--whose wedding's guest list included Barack Obama--for declining our request *to help them promote their book to an international audience of people who already like them* bc we didn't offer to pay seems like PR malpractice to me but what do I know!
Publicist email: "unfortunately we are not able to assist on unpaid podcast or interview requests, but we very much appreciate the invitation and wish you every success with the show and book club"
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It is galling for the district courts to manage discovery, assembling thorough and typically huge records in coming to their decisions, and some justices treat it as "meh, I saw something different on Fox News."
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Gabriel Malor @gabrielmalor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Spinning back to this to note that, notwithstanding the majority decision, Justice Alito's determination to blame, in part, the lower courts is another example of the TERRIBLE job the justices are doing mistreating the lower courts, especially district courts.
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
SIX MEMBERS OF THE SUPREME COURT: the sky is blue BRETT KAVANAUGH: the sky probably isn't blue, but y'all aren't ready to have that conversation ALITO AND THOMAS: the earth is strapped to the back of a gigantic chicken
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"my client didn't show up to his final immigration court hearing this morning" would usually be imm lawyer nightmare fuel, but my guy was in ICE custody. They were supposed to put him on video and they just... didn't. Because no one could find him. He's still in there. Just, you know, missing.
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The single most unnecessary piece of piano sheet music ever published is John Cage's 4'33" What's the second? I think it's Warren Zevon's Werewolves of London, but drop a suggestion here (with or without notation)
The entirety of the sheet music for Werewolves of London: a two bar riff, endlessly repeating
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iWillVote.com Pollock ➡️ turn 🔔 on @willpollock.com · 11/09/2026
media refuses to meet the gravity these crimes against humanity demand
NYT does a tick-tock headline of what the mechanics of a war crime were. just an utter failure of journalism and humanity here.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
RIP Marcy Borders, who was working as a legal assistant in the north WTC tower on 9/11. This photo of her, enshrouded in toxic dust, would become an iconic image of that day. She died of stomach cancer, almost 14 years later, at the age of 42. Survived by a daughter and a son.
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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD @nnedi.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Every email I get concerning this whole Anthropic Copyright Settlement is rage bait for me. To continually be reminded of their theft and the fact that all they can offer are pennies (imho) is INFURIATING. I don't WANT or NEED their money, I want them to remove my books from their AI's software!
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The 9/11 Commission report obscured more than it illuminated. The country took the wrong lessons from the attack. Instead of reevaluating US Middle East policy and alliances, the US government built a war machine and domestic surveillance apparatus that still haunts us today.
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
These wars did not target Saudi Arabia, home to most of the hijackers. From the very first moments, the US government has shielded the Saudi regime from accountability at every turn. The only people fighting for the truth are the families of the victims. www.propublica.org/article/saud...
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At Least Two Saudi Officials May Have Deliberately Assisted 9/11 Hijackers, New Evidence Suggests
Newly revealed information also raises questions about whether the FBI and CIA mishandled or downplayed evidence of the kingdom’s possible ties to the plotters.
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I have seen too much of this system to wish detention/deportation on anyone. Someone like this has absolutely earned it by supporting ICE & mass deportation like he has, but his account is remarkably consistent with what everyone has ever told me about the brutality of deportation. I give him that.
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I am now even more certain that Milo Yiannopolous never had a greencard than I was. The texts obtained from divorce records by It Could Happen Here confirm to me that an initial application was abandoned when his husband refused to support it, and then MY tried to pay him to "restart" the process
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
"where can I watch your podcast" still sounds to me like "where can I listen to your ballroom dance routine" but at least we have now given a whole new audience a chance to discover that my face isn't supposed to look like that
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Opening Arguments Podcast @openargs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
CORPORATE MEDIA: the president has promised a 5K cash bonus to voters if they give him the one branch of government it doesn't already control. Can he do that? THE ONLY PODCAST THAT EXPLAINS LAW IN THE NEWS: *takes a deep hit from a high-THC jazz cigarette, stares into the middle distance*
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jackie techila @jackietechila.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
knowing a bit about how immigration works is very helpful these days saving this one for the weekend, can't wait
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
This week on OA: why is no one actually talking about the law in the Lindsay Clancy trial? And how did Milo Yiannopolous end up in deportation proceedings anyway? Plus a quick footnote on an upstart social media company called... Twitter? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...
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Most Lindsay Clancy Coverage Has the Law All Wrong
Podcast Episode · Opening Arguments · September 4 · 1h 1m
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Everything A Border @bordered-lands.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Many years ago I was deciding between law school and grad school and what tf I was doing as a non-traditional student at the end of undergrad and @mattcameron.bsky.social graciously took the time to answer all my inane questions on the other app. I bet their office would be great to work in. Apply!
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Also so long as I am posting here we are also open to applications for a fully bilingual (eng/esp) paralegal with immigration law experience. (We don't need any certifications or specific education, just time in the field with a reference or two.) Same application process as below. Thanks!
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
OUR BOSTON DEPORTATION DEFENSE OFFICE IS SEEKING FALL LAW INTERNS w/demonstrated commitment to imm law and (preferably) Spanish fluency Inquire to matt@massimmigrationlaw.com w/CV & brief statement of interest in body of email. Ty! (Local to Boston preferred w/remote available for the right 3L)
screenshot of downtown Boston centering new location of Cameron Micheroni & Silvia at 160 State St, steps from waterfront & Fanueil Hall
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
RESULT: Wow, the AP has already called the U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts—just 20 minutes after polls closed. Senator Ed Markey has defeated Seth Moulton.
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
for my entire adult life people with no direct exposure to fundamentalist Christianity have assumed I was joking or somehow exaggerating when I tried to explain that the people I grew up with want to bring on the literal Apocalypse and that electing people like them to actual power might just do it
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Tina Vasquez @tinavasquez.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
More broadly, DHS claims it detained roughly 50,000 people last month, on par with July, which was the highest single monthly arrest total during Trump's second term. Last summer, protests exploded due to the public and brazen nature of these raids. But raids are still happening nationwide.
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
sharing this news from an actual journalist as penance for overwhelming your feed with Milo Yiannopolous trash. far, far more important things are happening in immigration enforcement than the surprise removal of one white supremacist!
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Corinne Green @ket.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
the "pro-kratom" argument is do you think drug criminalization and the war on drugs have been good or bad? do you like where we're at with fentanyl and xylazine? do you want to keep doing the same things we've been doing? has that been working? do you like losing friends and family to toxic supply?
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
MILO 2025: "we have got to deport millions and millions and millions of people... nothing else matters" [EXACTLY ONE DEPORTATION LATER] MILO 2026: "this is not how immigration systems are supposed to work"
Milo on X (6/5/2025) "we have got to deport millions and millions and millions of people. Without that, nothing else matters."Milo Y on pIers Morgan: "this is not how immigration systems are supposed to work"
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
TWO ICE AGENTS WALKED OFF THE JOB RATHER THAN HAVE TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR DEPORTING MILO YIANNOPOLOUS, a white man they recognized as a former MAGA celebrity. "this isn't what I got into it for," MY claims one said before leaving I dearly hope this is true. I really do. Because it says *so much*
Milo Yiannopolous tells Piers MOrgan that two ICE agents "walked off the job" after recognizing him and refusing to deport himMilo Yiannopolous claims that two ICE agents recognized him "from 2016" when he was an especially obnoxious Trump supporter and had sympathy for him
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Just watched Milo Yiannopolous's interview with Piers Morgan so that you don't have to. First impression: this is surprisingly sincere. MAGA needs to see a white man in a suit describing his detention/deportation as traumatic torture & mental degradation, bc they won't hear it from anyone else
Milo Yiannopolous sitting at a news desk with Piers Morgan saying "But I get it now, and I wouldn't wish it on anyone"
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Matt Cameron @mattcameron.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
You know that the zeitgeist around kratom is *dire* when ProPublica is carrying the DEA's water! This is the only story PP has ever published on anything relating to kratom, and it is absurdly prohibitionist. We are about to make the same mistake with mitragyna speciosa that we made with cannabis.
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smoke crack worship satan btw need $ (she/her) @devilvaginamagic.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I mostly refuse true crime for this very reason. It is also often exploitative towards people affected. What I will read and listen to is things that were created by the victims or with significant input from them.
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James Stout @jamesstout.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
True Crime and its consequences are one of the most disturbing fallouts of the long 2020 I think. Yeah, you shouldn't trust the cops, but you should not trust the person on Tik Tok who benefits financially from your engagement either.
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